Catalogs and research reports

Directories

Certain archives have been indexed and a catalog produced. These catalogs can be consulted via the following links :

Fonds Station de ski Mont-Sutton

Fonds Station de ski Mont-Sutton

The opening of a ski centre by the Boulanger family in 1960 has profoundly influenced Sutton’s evolution. When the ski centre was sold in 2017, the old and new owners agreed to hand over its archives to Héritage Sutton. These were indexed by professional archivists with funds from BanQ. The catalog describes 5,000 photographs, 8 metres of text documents, some 350 maps and drawings and some one hundred audio documents and videos.

At the same time that the Boulanger family handed over the ski centre archives to Héritage Sutton, it handed over documents relative to other businesses the family once operated in Sutton; they are found in the following archives:

Fonds Produits laitiers Sutton

Fonds Produits laitiers Sutton

Before founding the Mont-Sutton Ski Centre, the Boulanger family operated les Produits laitiers Sutton, a company bought in 1945 from local entrepreneurs. For 35 years, PLS exported to the Canadian and American markets dairy products supplied by local farmers. Notably, they produced powdered milk, butter and chocolate milk.

Fonds Canada Art and Creative Arts

The Boulanger family bought back two existing industries: in 1955, Sutcliffe Angora which made fashion accessories and in 1966 a furniture and children’s toys factory which Line Bros had run since 1953. It then added the fabrication of rocking-chairs that found their way to many of the region’s homes. Both enterprises remained active until the mid-1980s.

Fonds Famille Boulanger

Harold Boulanger owned a butter factory in Lambton. In 1945 he became a Sutton resident where he ran Les Produits laitiers Sutton. A second project took shape in 1960: the development of a ski center owned by the Boulanger family for more than 56 years. This fund contains 264 photographs.

Harpin, Louise, Morazain, Jeanne, décembre 2018.

This abundantly illustrated report situates this textile mill in relation to the railway station area that it took over bit by bit, traces the stages and the different actors in this implementation and describes the working conditions via the testimonies of those who worked there.